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Even in a show built on excess, a $1,000 piñata shaped like a French bulldog manages to raise eyebrows.

On this Season 3 installment of VICELAND’s “MOST EXPENSIVEST,” host 2 Chainz trades his usual tour of yachts and diamond grills for something a little more personal: a papier-mâché tribute to Trappy, his beloved French bulldog. The rapper sits down with Yesenia Prieto, a third-generation piñata artisan who’s turned a birthday-party staple into a genuine luxury craft. The result is a supersized custom piece built to look exactly like Trappy — and, as with every piñata ever made, it’s ultimately destined to get smashed.

• 2 Chainz meets Yesenia Prieto, a third-generation piñata maker who has elevated traditional papier-mâché work into high-end custom art.
• Prieto builds a supersized, $1,000 piñata designed to replicate 2 Chainz’s French bulldog, Trappy.
• The segment walks through the craftsmanship and cost behind Prieto’s bespoke pieces before the Trappy piñata meets its inevitable fate at the end of a stick.

A Family Craft Taken Upscale

Piñata-making has been passed down through Prieto’s family for three generations, and she’s used that inherited skill to push the craft well past the standard star-shaped, candy-stuffed version most people grew up smashing at birthday parties. Instead of mass-produced designs, Prieto builds custom commissions — sculpted, painted, and sized to order — that function more like sculpture than party favor. That’s the pitch 2 Chainz walks into on “MOST EXPENSIVEST,” a series that regularly pairs him with specialists who’ve turned everyday goods into premium products.

The show has made a habit of finding people who’ve figured out how to charge four figures for things that normally cost a fraction of that, and Prieto fits the format perfectly. Her work isn’t about volume — it’s about scale, detail, and a price tag that reflects hours of hand construction rather than an assembly line.

Building Trappy, Piece by Piece

The centerpiece of the episode is a supersized piñata built in the exact likeness of Trappy, 2 Chainz’s French bulldog and a recurring presence in his social media and public persona. Prieto’s process involves layering papier-mâché over a frame to capture Trappy’s build and features at a scale big enough to require real structural planning — not something you’d tape together the night before a party.

A $1,000 piñata built to look exactly like your dog is either the most extravagant party prop imaginable or the most sentimental one — Prieto’s work makes the case it can be both.

2 Chainz walks through the build with genuine curiosity, treating the piece less like a novelty prop and more like a commissioned portrait — one that happens to be made of paper and glue rather than paint and canvas. That tension between fine-art process and party-favor purpose is exactly what “MOST EXPENSIVEST” is built to explore, in the same way past episodes have dug into the cost breakdown behind luxury champagne bottles or high-end mansion tours with guests like Shaquille O’Neal.

The Inevitable Ending

No matter how much craftsmanship goes into it, a piñata has one job left once it’s finished: it has to break. The episode doesn’t shy away from that outcome — after all the detail work on Trappy’s likeness, the piece still meets a bat, a swing, and the same fate as the $5 versions sold at any party store. It’s a blunt punchline built into the format of the show itself, similar to the way other high-dollar spectacles covered elsewhere — like extravagant custom builds detailed in pieces on turning a cent into a house — hinge on a big reveal moment that undercuts all the setup that came before it.

2 Chainz has built “MOST EXPENSIVEST” around this exact contrast — genuine appreciation for skilled craft, followed by a willingness to destroy the product of that craft on camera for the segment’s payoff. Trappy’s papier-mâché double is just the latest example, and given how much attention past episodes exploring luxury excess have drawn — the kind of spending discussed in pieces like the one detailing lavish, city-altering money moves — it’s a safe bet Prieto’s custom piñatas get more commission requests once this episode makes the rounds.